Alaska

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a marijuana sample is set aside for evaluation at Cannalysis, a cannabis testing laboratory, in Santa Ana, California.

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Adults 21 and over can light up in Alaska. In early 2015, the
northernmost US state made it legal for residents to use,
possess, and transport up
to an ounce of marijuana- roughly a sandwich bag full - for
recreational use. The first pot shop opened
for business in late 2016.

Alaska has pounced on the opportunity to make its recreational
pot shops a destination for tourists. More than
two
million people visit Alaska annually and spend
$2 billion.

California

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A woman holds marijuana for sale at the MedMen store in West Hollywood, California U.S. January 2, 2018.

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California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana back
in 1996. California became even more pot-friendly in 2016 when it
made it legal to use and carry up to an ounce of marijuana.

The law also permits adults 21 and over to buy up to eight grams
of marijuana concentrates, which are found in edibles, and grow
no more than six marijuana plants per household.

Getting Californians to buy legal weed - rather than from the
black market - has been challenging since the law took effect,
The New York Times reports.

Colorado

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In this Sept. 25, 2018 photo, a worker holds a marijuana plant leaf in a massive tomato greenhouse being renovated to grow pot in Delta, British Columbia.

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In Colorado, there
are more marijuana dispensaries than
Starbucks and McDonalds locations combined. The state
joined Washington in becoming the first two states to fully
legalize the drug in 2012.

Residents and tourists over the age of 21 can buy up to one
ounce of marijuana or eight grams of concentrates. Some
Colorado counties
and cities have passed more restrictive
laws.

Michigan

Voters in Michigan passed Proposition 1 last year, making it the
first state in the Midwest to legalize
the possession and sale of marijuana for adults
over the age of 21. The bill allows adults to possess up to 2.5
ounces of marijuana and allows residents to grow up to 12 plants
at home.

The law is more permissive than other states with legal
marijuana: Most allow residents to only possess up to an ounce at
a time.

Nevada

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People by marijuana products at the Essence cannabis dispensary, Saturday, July 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. Nevada dispensaries were legally allowed to sell recreational marijuana starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

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Residents and tourists who are 21 and over can buy an ounce of
marijuana or one-eighth of an ounce of edibles or concentrates in
Nevada - while supplies last. Less than two weeks after sales of
recreational weed began on July 1, 2017, many stores
ran
out of marijuana to sell.

Adults in the Green Mountain State will be able to carry up to an
ounce of marijuana and grow no more than two plants for
recreational use. The new law goes into effect in July. But the
bill is limited in scope. It doesn't establish a legal market for
production and sale of the drug.

Washington

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An employee checks cannabis plants at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel March 21, 2017

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REUTERS/Nir Elias

Dispensaries in Washington have raked
in over $1 billion in non-medical marijuana
sales since the drug was legalized for recreational use in 2012.

While the federal government under President Trump is no friend
to marijuana reform laws, it's likely that we'll see action from
Congress - with a Democrat-controlled House - easing tax burdens
and banking restrictions on marijuana businesses, and expanding
access to medical marijuana.